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Carrie Netzer Wajda

Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt in the movie Salt

Today’s Female Crime-Fighters: Not Nancy Enough?

By Carrie Netzer Wajda

May 18, 2011

She’s tough. She’s violent. And mystery readers can’t seem to get enough of her. Over the past six decades, female sleuths have gone from sweet (think Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple or Nancy Drew) to tough-minded (Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect) to borderline psychopathic, preternaturally talented uber-predators. Versions of the hard-as-nails woman detective…

Arresting Uncertainty

By Carrie Netzer Wajda

May 1, 2011

Life is alarmingly full of unsolved mysteries, from the mundane (where did the mate to my favorite sock go?) to the profoundly unsettling, like unsolved murders. Although there are no precise statistics available, one study of FBI records found that 6,000 killers get away with murder each year. Even in our modern era of computer tracking,…

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